Azad bey Amirov or Azad bey Abbas bey oglu Amirov (

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: ''Əmirov Azad bəy Abbas oğlu ''; b. 1883,

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- d. Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, 1939) was an Azerbaijani doctor and teacher. One of the first physiologists of Azerbaijan.

Life

Azad bey Amirov was born in

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in 1883 in a

bey Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

family. In 1904, Azad Amirov graduated from the Gori seminary, then the law and medical faculties of the Imperial Novorossiysk University in Odessa. From 1926 he taught at the Azerbaijan State University. He was a childhood friend of the composer

Uzeyir Hajibeyov Uzeyir bey Abdulhuseyn oghlu Hajibeyov ( az, Üzeyir bəy Əbdülhüseyn oğlu Hacıbəyov; russian: Узеир Абдул-Гусейн оглы Гаджибеков, translit=Uzeir Abdul-Guseyn ogly Gadzhibekov; September 18, 1885November 23, 19 ...

, with whom he studied together at the Gori Seminary. In 1912, Amirov staged the comedy "Not that one, then that one" in Shusha. In his memoirs, Hajibeyov noted the excellent performance of Amirov in the role of

Meshadi Ibad ''If Not That One, Then This One'' (; ), also known as ''Mashadi Ibad'' (; ) is a 1910 Azerbaijani operetta in four acts written by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov. The comedy reflects social and everyday life relations in prerevolutionary Azerbaijan ...

. In connection with the tenth anniversary of the production of the opera "

Leyli and Majnun ''Layla & Majnun'' ( ar, مجنون ليلى ; Layla's Mad Lover) is an old story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layl ...

" in 1918, Amirov, addressing Hajibeyov in a letter, noted his role in the

history of Azerbaijan The history of Azerbaijan is understood as the history of the region now forming the Republic of Azerbaijan. Topographically, the land is contained by the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains in the north, the Caspian Sea in the east, and t ...

: Azad bey Amırov died in Baku in 1939.

References

{{reflist 1883 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Azerbaijani educators Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary alumni Shusha Realni School alumni People from Shusha